The Auburn City Council put the brakes on a resolution to use the remaining money left over in the road program until it is happy with the proposed projects.

The measure to pay Vitale Construction $166,000 for additional street improvement projects failed to get momentum at Thursday's council meeting.

“I have no problem spending that money if it's for streets ... that are in desperate need to be fixed right away,” councilor Matt Smith said, adding that there are streets around the city that are in worse condition than those named in the resolution.

Mayor Timothy Lattimore sponsored the order to get it on the floor, but no one else seconded the motion.

“No one wants to sponsor this for the sake of discussion?” Lattimore asked the men.

He got his answer when the measure failed.

At the Nov. 20 meeting, the councilors tabled the resolution after expressing trepidation about a portion of the plan to include replacing curbing on some city-owned land.

Staff changed the resolution to remove the sections council didn't warm to and replaced those with other priorities. The council still didn't embrace the measure.

The resubmitted order took off curbing and put on more road program friendly projects.

Crews were going to target missing curbs surrounding Hoopes Park along Walnut Street and the Clifford Park Y-field.

Instead, the revised plan proposes creating a parking spot for buses to unload in front of Casey Park.

Also, Nucor Steel asked the city to explore widening the corner of Quarry Road and North Street to make it easier for tractor-trailers to move through the intersections, the same with Allen Street near North Division Street to increase the turning radius of the curb for the trucks.

Councilor William Graney wants more time to examine the proposed projects.

“When I heard of road programs, I thought of black-topping (streets),” Graney said.

The city's Department of Public Works has money set aside for the Casey Park improvements, Matt Smith said.

The proposal also includes paving Wood and Court streets because those were supposed to be done for this fall, but there was gas and electric work done on those streets and delayed road improvement work.

The city manager and staff will continue to present the change order for council's approval. If the council agrees to the change order in future meetings, Vitale Construction would begin work in the spring.

“By doing the change order now, when the black top plant is open, they can jump on it and get it done then, not months from then,” said William Lupien, superintendent of Engineering Services.

“The money we put aside to go toward the road program should be used,” Smith said, “in my opinion, for roads 20,000 people drive on.”

Staff writer Jessica Soule can be reached at 253-5311, ext. 267 or jessica.soule@lee.net

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Auburn Player's “Musical Revue” starts at 1 p.m., Bisgrove theater.

In the cafeteria, Barrigar Brothers play 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., and

Roger Hernandez plays 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.